BIRMINGHAM: The family of a schoolboy who died after a road accident are to take part in the Morrisons Great Birmingham Run in his memory.
Amar Atwal, aged 12, from Great Barr, was in collision with a car in Hollyhedge Road, West Bromwich, in May 2015. It happened during his half-term break from Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall. After the crash he was in a critical condition on a life support machine at Birmingham Children’s Hospital for two days before his family made the heartbreaking decision to switch it off and donate his organs.
Five of his relatives will now pull on their trainers and take part in the half marathon on October 18 to raise money for the hospital.
Cousins Harpreet Sahota, aged 32, Nitasha Sahota, 27, Manisha Sandhu, 25 and Sharan Kullar, 28, together with his aunt, Neata Simpson, 37, will take part in the event. Harpreet said hospital staff did everything they could for Amar and so they wanted to take part in the run to give something back.
